Its National Vegetarian Week. No, I didn’t know that either. It might seem incongruous that a drink made from grapes might have vegetarian alternatives, but some animal bi-products do make their way into wine production through the filtration process (used to stop the wine becoming hazy). Egg white, fish guts and even bulls blood can [...]
Tags: Chilean Wine, Henry Butler, Making wine, National Vegetarian Week, South African Wine, wines school
Here I am dressed literally like a muppet to tell you of a new initiative from New Zealand where the Mobious Malborough vineyard are listing the wine’s carbon footprint on the label. This seems like a good idea: I get a number of people in carrot-munching Brighton coming in the shop and looking for organic [...]
Tags: carbon footprint, Chilean Wine, Green wine, Henry Butler, off-setting in wine production, Organic wine, Waipara Springs wine, Wine from New Zealand
Remember the Chilean Miners? You do: hard hats and designer sunglasses? The inevitable film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro? Now you remember. No surprise that sales of Chilean Wine rocketed in the aftermath of that story: I myself was guilty of selling Chilean Wine at 10% discount for an hour the weekend [...]
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